The Penn's Grove record., 1887-08-20
NEWS IN BRIEF.

AO hIGlCob well IA LnO nOlAO A
at Homewood, Penna., Apd is 5000 feei
below the surface.
Edward Weston, the once famoui
pedestrian, Is now q reporter On a New
York daily, it is stated.
An electric railway is talked of In
CInclnnati-to run between that city
and Arondale, a suburb.
Jamaica is said to contain about
800 species of ferns, or one.sixth Of the
ferns Of the whole world.
-Disinfectants are put in the wa.
terlng carts in Boston by order Of the
PUBLIC Safety Department.
Telephone communication, con-
Meeting Paris with Amsterdam through
Brussels, is to be established shortly.
"A company has been organized to
supply Boston with steam, or rather
hot water, for domestic and mechan-
ical purposes.
Russian traders are reported to
have established a store In Thibet,
which has hitherto been closed to out
side commerce.
-Buenos Ayres is said to have a
theatre capable of accommodating
1000 spectators. The cost is estimated
at 5 5000, 900.
Kansas has a new county called
Greeley. There are only two towns
in the county yet, and one is Horace,
the other Tribune.
Some 10000 900 eeis are sold IN
London every year. The BilIingsgate
np.tYlHA np1nuntz To CnpDnthfnn 11Iyn
970,00 per annum.
Passing railroad trains have 30
Jared 2 large chimney in Boston that
its removal has been recommended by
the Building Inspectors.
The cholera caused a general clean
ing or the streets OF Santiago in the
Argentine Confederation, aud 16, 900
car loads Of refuse were removed.
a cent an acre was all that some
of the thousands OF acres In Oneida
and UeTklmer counties, New York,
brought at a sale the other day,
"A workman in a valley il Cal:for-
mia was struck and almost instantly
killed by a twenty-five pound stone,
which had been loosened above by a
dog.
Mayor Hewitt gives a Street COM
missioner of New York the alternative
OF having the city's streets at once
made clean or handing in his resigna-
ton.
Alexander Coke, who is this year
graduated from Yale, is the heaviest
man who ever received a diploma from
that institution. He weighs 295
pounds.
"A salmon captured in the Hudson
river recently Is believed to be one O.
the fishes Matched by Seth Green in
the upper waters of the Hudson six
years ago.
The postal communications with
her Asiatic. African, and Australian
possessions cost England a little over
$500 coo, Of which amount G365 900 is
a dead loss.
The foreign dress is making STEADY
progress in Japan. 1t is reported that
there are 25G Of these dressmakers in
Osaka, and they are uniting in a special
trade guild.
Hopes, slight. to be sure, are said
to lie entertained by the physicians who
are treating BARLEY Campbell, the
playwright, that he may ultimately re.
cover his reason.
The rapidity with which railroads
have been constructed in Japan, recites
q local journal, is shown by the fact
that there are now $40 miles in daily
work on the island.
"A debtors gallery has been pub
lished by a Winnipeg, (Manitoba) pho
.tographer, who had plainly marked on
each portrait the amount the subject
owed him. Results are not reported.
The claims for damages filed
against the Boston and Providence
road, a result of the Busy bridge dis.
aster, ranging from $500 to $50 900, in
individual sums, amount in the aggre-
gate to over $500. 900.
The fund for the widows and or
phans of the policemen who were killed
the Chicago riots is to be dis
tributed on the basis of a payment Of
$1,000 to each widow and $500 to each
under 10 years of age.
The Naval Department of Japan
proposes that the standing fleet consist
hencefOrth of fifty war ships and sew
eral cruisers, involving the expenditure,
including the cost of torpedo apparatus,
armament, etc., of about $50, O0O, 900.
"A pair of elephant tusks measuring
7 feet s inches, were exhibited to a re-
recently. They weighed respec-
lively 139 and 13l pounds, and were
valued at $1,000. The same dealer had
pair measuring eleven inches.
Gathering potato bugs is quite q
lucrative business In parts of Virginia,
and as high as 81 a day Ii earned by
some of the women engaged in it.
Compensation is at the rate of five
per ''yeast powder" canfull Of
the insects.
"A citizen of rev York, whose
house was robbed went to report his
loss at a police station, but says that
when he had made known his erTand
the sergeant in charge answered. sob,
20 hang yourself" He sensIbly wrote
to the newspapers of his treatment in
stead.
The people of the United King
dom were Indebted in the year 1884 to
countries for a supply OF 992,-
SOS ,760 eggs. For poultry and game.
included, they had to pay TO
exporters, the handsome
amount Of GG70 600.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com.
pany uses G000 tons of coal q day on
It's various lines, and is the largest
consumer of soft coal In the country.
1t is now experimenting with natural
gas as a fuel for its engines, and pro.
poses, if the plan should prove TO be
to use gas on all the engines
running into Plttsburg.
The public revenue of all Austral-
asia amounted in 1884 to e22, 2S5, 600,
and the public expenditure go, $50, 900.
The public debt at that time wa e97,-
]i4, 600, the value of imports e64, 1853,
300, and OF exports, e44, 1886, 200. In
he same year shipping representing
I0,SS6, 600 tons entered and cleared out
]f the various ports, irrespective or
mere coaSting trade.
Railroad property now constitutes
)ne-hfth of the accumulated capital OF
lie United States, gives employment